INQUEST AT ALBURY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2157, 17 February 1880, Page 2

INQUEST AT ALBURY.

An inquiry was hold last evening - at the Opawa hotel. Albury, before 11. Bcctliam, Esq., Coroner, and a jury, of whom John Belithcr was chosen foreman, touching the deatli of Thomas Adamson, who died at midnight on Sunday from the effects of sunstroke. John Feeney was the first witness examined, and deposed that lie was a laborer, residing at Albury, and knew the deceased. On Sunday evening, witness was going from Albury to where he was camped. Saw a boy lying on the side of the road. Ho was insensible, and his hat was off. Thereupon informed the mother of the deceased, and she came and recognised him as her son. He was then carried to his home. Thomas Gibson deposed that he was a porter employed in the railway shed at Albury, and that deceased called at his house on Sunday morning. He seemed then to be well and in good spirits. He was then on the way to where his mother was stopping. The heat on Sunday was very great. Deceased left witness’s place about 10,30 a.m. Margaret Adamson stated that she was the mother of the deceased, and that she saw her son lying on the road side on Sunday afternoon last insensible. He was carried home, and lived till midnight. He was found about five o’clock in the afternoon. He had several fits during the interval before he died. , Thomas Adamson, father of the deceased, deposed that his son, Thomas Adamson, was about 11 years of age. He had always been a healthy child. Witness had seven children alive ; all of them healthy. This terminated the inquiry.

The jury, after a brief consultation, brought in a verdict to the effect that death had resulted from sunstroke.